Medicalized menopause, U.S. style

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 822-830

  Meyer, Vicki F ^a  

^a InterNational Organization to Reclaim Menopause (INORM)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DYSMENORRHEA; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MENOPAUSE; PREJUDICE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 1442358786     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330390229939     Document Type: Article

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